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June 18, 2009 at 10:04 AM
brandonban6

N00b Firewall/VPN question

by brandonban6 . Updated 17 years ago

Hello Guys,

I’m fairly green on the topic of server administration, so I had couple of beginner questions I was hoping to get some help with.

I have a small business with 4 or 5 people who VPN in to a central server running Win Server 2003.

I followed your guide here:
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5805260.html which proved to be an excellent article!

However, in regards to the “basic firewall” operation, how do I add an exception for RDP? Before the VPN setup, the server was setup so that RDP was possible via public IP Address. After I setup the VPN with the basic firewall, I could no longer RDP in with the Public IP, if disable the firewall, I’m back in business..can I enable the firewall, and just add an exception?

Should I choose another method other than RDP, something like VNC?

thank you for your time!

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